Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bad circulation for one copy of TIME...
...vulgarian. His manners would be called excellent except for his penchant to monopolize the conversation. On first acquaintance he seems a truly remarkable man. He does not wear well. That he has the talent and the information to make the mess a lot worse than it is, bad as it is, is not questioned...
Good news for Canadian lumbermen and pulpmakers, bad news for British and U. S. coal shippers, was announced by Ontario's gruff, industrious Premier Howard Ferguson last week. Drilling profound holes in the rocky banks of North Ontario's Abitibi River, geologists of the Ontario Department of Mines had struck a coal formation estimated to contain 20 million tons of lignite...
Pretty little Rhineland towns like Bad Schwalbach and Koenigstein bade stolid, silent farewells last week to British troops who have been quartered in the vicinity of Wiesbaden all through the decade since...
Scarlet Pages. A lamentable victim of bad drama is Elsie Ferguson, surely one of the most genteel and talented of players. In recent years she has several times displayed her auburn sightliness (The Moon Flower, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, The House of Women), only to learn that the chords of life which she interpreted were dissonances. In Scarlet Pages she appears as a capable woman lawyer to whom appeals a cabaret girl who has killed her father because of his incestuous attempts...